Microservices Job Trends

Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 83 50
Rank change year-on-year -38 -33 -11
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,164 1,858 2,595
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.94% 3.32% 5.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.37% 3.70% 5.50%
Number of salaries quoted 790 1,037 1,991
10th Percentile £52,500 £46,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £61,250 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% -3.45% -6.45%
75th Percentile £95,938 £87,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £121,375 £112,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 49,171 50,180 47,191
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.02% 89.77% 91.92%
Number of salaries quoted 28,914 25,122 36,044
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,552
25th Percentile £36,750 £45,000 £42,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -3.67%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 26 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 26 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -23 1,079 £77,500 +10.71% 1,749
London +5 603 £85,000 - 360
UK excluding London -74 505 £70,000 +7.69% 1,554
Work from Home -28 489 £75,000 +11.11% 1,041
North of England -20 222 £70,000 +14.37% 365
North West -1 120 £67,500 +7.14% 185
South East -98 102 £75,000 +7.14% 419
Yorkshire -23 87 £75,000 +22.54% 146
Midlands -16 64 £75,000 +15.38% 279
South West -52 52 £63,750 +2.00% 167
West Midlands +11 37 £71,250 +15.19% 142
Scotland -56 33 £67,500 -1.82% 74
East of England -21 27 £78,750 +36.96% 210
East Midlands -30 25 £77,500 +19.23% 121
North East -2 15 £61,350 +16.86% 34
Wales -5 5 £55,200 +10.40% 45
Northern Ireland -17 3 - - 19
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 31 (2.66%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (2.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 24 (2.06%) Apache
3 24 (2.06%) Apache Spark
3 24 (2.06%) Confluence
4 14 (1.20%) OpenStack
5 11 (0.95%) JBoss
6 10 (0.86%) Appian
7 9 (0.77%) CMS
8 8 (0.69%) WebSphere
9 7 (0.60%) nginx
10 6 (0.52%) IIS
11 5 (0.43%) Apache Pulsar
12 3 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
13 2 (0.17%) Liferay
13 2 (0.17%) Tomcat
14 1 (0.086%) Camunda
14 1 (0.086%) Ethereum
14 1 (0.086%) Jupyter
14 1 (0.086%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 22 (1.89%) Maya
2 14 (1.20%) MS Visio
3 12 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.34%) PlantUML
5 3 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.17%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 17 (1.46%) Oracle ERP
2 9 (0.77%) Endur
2 9 (0.77%) SAP FS
3 8 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
6 3 (0.26%) Shopify
7 2 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.086%) Actimize
8 1 (0.086%) Bloomberg AIM
8 1 (0.086%) Distributed Ledger
8 1 (0.086%) Fidessa
8 1 (0.086%) Quorum
8 1 (0.086%) R3 Corda
8 1 (0.086%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 615 (52.84%) AWS
2 553 (47.51%) Azure
3 197 (16.92%) Serverless
4 189 (16.24%) GCP
5 158 (13.57%) SaaS
6 126 (10.82%) GitHub
7 121 (10.40%) Azure DevOps
8 81 (6.96%) Amazon S3
9 80 (6.87%) Amazon EKS
10 75 (6.44%) AWS Lambda
11 67 (5.76%) Amazon ECS
12 61 (5.24%) PaaS
13 58 (4.98%) GitHub Actions
14 54 (4.64%) Amazon SQS
15 47 (4.04%) AWS CloudFormation
16 41 (3.52%) IaaS
17 38 (3.26%) Power Platform
18 36 (3.09%) Amazon EC2
19 33 (2.84%) Azure Service Bus
19 33 (2.84%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 11 (0.95%) HTTP
2 9 (0.77%) AMQP
3 7 (0.60%) Network Security
4 4 (0.34%) Internet
4 4 (0.34%) WAN
5 3 (0.26%) Broadband
5 3 (0.26%) Multicast
6 2 (0.17%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.17%) LAN
6 2 (0.17%) SNMP
6 2 (0.17%) SSL
7 1 (0.086%) MQTT
7 1 (0.086%) TCAP
7 1 (0.086%) Value-Added Service
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (14.35%) NoSQL
2 163 (14.00%) PostgreSQL
3 144 (12.37%) MongoDB
4 133 (11.43%) SQL Server
5 65 (5.58%) Relational Database
6 60 (5.15%) DynamoDB
7 53 (4.55%) MySQL
8 44 (3.78%) Azure SQL Database
9 40 (3.44%) Elasticsearch
10 28 (2.41%) Redis
11 23 (1.98%) Big Data
11 23 (1.98%) Data Warehouse
11 23 (1.98%) Power BI
12 21 (1.80%) RDBMS
13 17 (1.46%) Tableau
14 15 (1.29%) Amazon RDS
14 15 (1.29%) DB2
15 12 (1.03%) BigQuery
16 10 (0.86%) Data Lake
17 9 (0.77%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 161 (13.83%) Git
2 125 (10.74%) Jenkins
3 58 (4.98%) JIRA
4 48 (4.12%) GitLab
5 43 (3.69%) JUnit
5 43 (3.69%) Selenium
6 35 (3.01%) Cucumber
7 28 (2.41%) TeamCity
8 27 (2.32%) JMeter
9 25 (2.15%) Mockito
10 22 (1.89%) Cypress.io
11 21 (1.80%) Bitbucket
12 17 (1.46%) Oracle Forms
13 13 (1.12%) CircleCI
14 12 (1.03%) Maven
15 10 (0.86%) Postman
16 9 (0.77%) LoadRunner
17 8 (0.69%) git-flow
18 7 (0.60%) Octopus Deploy
18 7 (0.60%) Snyk
General
1 346 (29.73%) Social Skills
2 338 (29.04%) Finance
3 114 (9.79%) Banking
4 107 (9.19%) Analytical Skills
5 101 (8.68%) Law
6 67 (5.76%) Public Sector
7 57 (4.90%) Retail
8 48 (4.12%) Games
9 46 (3.95%) Financial Institution
10 35 (3.01%) Telecoms
11 31 (2.66%) French Language
12 30 (2.58%) Dutch Language
12 30 (2.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 26 (2.23%) Billing
13 26 (2.23%) Influencing Skills
13 26 (2.23%) Marketing
14 25 (2.15%) Back Office
15 24 (2.06%) Legal
16 21 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
17 16 (1.37%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 402 (34.54%) Developer
2 265 (22.77%) Senior
3 237 (20.36%) Architect
4 193 (16.58%) Software Engineer
5 179 (15.38%) Lead
6 114 (9.79%) Solutions Architect
7 101 (8.68%) Java Developer
8 100 (8.59%) .NET Developer
9 89 (7.65%) Full-Stack Developer
9 89 (7.65%) Senior Developer
10 63 (5.41%) Senior Software Engineer
11 58 (4.98%) Java Engineer
12 57 (4.90%) Lead Developer
13 50 (4.30%) Software Developer
14 46 (3.95%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 41 (3.52%) Cloud Engineer
16 40 (3.44%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 38 (3.26%) Lead Architect
18 35 (3.01%) Java Software Engineer
19 33 (2.84%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 304 (26.12%) .NET
2 283 (24.31%) React
3 248 (21.31%) RESTful
4 200 (17.18%) Spring
5 196 (16.84%) REST
6 181 (15.55%) Kafka
7 174 (14.95%) Spring Boot
8 145 (12.46%) AngularJS
9 144 (12.37%) Node.js
10 120 (10.31%) .NET Core
11 98 (8.42%) HTML
12 75 (6.44%) .NET Framework
13 69 (5.93%) ASP.NET
13 69 (5.93%) CSS
14 63 (5.41%) ASP.NET Web API
15 60 (5.15%) RabbitMQ
16 55 (4.73%) Entity Framework
16 55 (4.73%) Middleware
17 51 (4.38%) Hibernate
17 51 (4.38%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 304 (26.12%) Cloud Native
2 175 (15.03%) Distributed Systems
3 126 (10.82%) Enterprise Software
4 100 (8.59%) Product Ownership
5 49 (4.21%) Legacy Systems
6 48 (4.12%) Greenfield Project
7 33 (2.84%) Data Structures
8 31 (2.66%) Virtual Team
9 30 (2.58%) Self-Motivation
10 28 (2.41%) Algorithms
11 24 (2.06%) Blockchain
11 24 (2.06%) Distributed Architecture
12 23 (1.98%) AI Agents
13 22 (1.89%) Onboarding
14 18 (1.55%) Mobile App
15 17 (1.46%) Low-Code
16 16 (1.37%) Public Cloud
17 15 (1.29%) IoT
17 15 (1.29%) Management Information System
18 12 (1.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 56 (4.81%) Linux
2 25 (2.15%) Windows
3 21 (1.80%) Android
4 11 (0.95%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.26%) CentOS
5 3 (0.26%) Debian
5 3 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.26%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.17%) Unix
6 2 (0.17%) VMS
6 2 (0.17%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.086%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 596 (51.20%) Agile
2 537 (46.13%) CI/CD
3 493 (42.35%) DevOps
4 362 (31.10%) Software Engineering
5 275 (23.63%) Full-Stack Development
6 272 (23.37%) Containerisation
7 252 (21.65%) AI
8 238 (20.45%) Mentoring
9 230 (19.76%) Problem-Solving
10 203 (17.44%) Event-Driven
11 197 (16.92%) Continuous Improvement
12 178 (15.29%) Computer Science
13 159 (13.66%) TDD
14 156 (13.40%) Test Automation
15 155 (13.32%) Scrum
16 154 (13.23%) Roadmaps
17 145 (12.46%) Technical Leadership
18 136 (11.68%) Clean Code
19 131 (11.25%) SDLC
20 124 (10.65%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 390 (33.51%) Java
2 293 (25.17%) C#
3 288 (24.74%) Python
4 276 (23.71%) SQL
5 260 (22.34%) JavaScript
6 205 (17.61%) TypeScript
7 61 (5.24%) Go
8 36 (3.09%) Shell Script
9 28 (2.41%) PL/SQL
10 24 (2.06%) C++
11 23 (1.98%) PHP
12 20 (1.72%) C
13 18 (1.55%) Bash
14 17 (1.46%) Ruby
15 16 (1.37%) PowerShell
16 15 (1.29%) Kotlin
17 13 (1.12%) Rust
18 7 (0.60%) Bicep
18 7 (0.60%) Scala
19 6 (0.52%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 206 (17.70%) Degree
2 131 (11.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 93 (7.99%) Security Cleared
4 69 (5.93%) SC Cleared
5 67 (5.76%) AWS Certification
6 57 (4.90%) Master's Degree
7 45 (3.87%) TOGAF Certification
8 40 (3.44%) Azure Certification
9 36 (3.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 29 (2.49%) Microsoft Certification
11 15 (1.29%) AWS Certified Developer
12 14 (1.20%) DV Cleared
13 9 (0.77%) PMI Certification
13 9 (0.77%) PMP
14 6 (0.52%) CISM
14 6 (0.52%) CISSP
14 6 (0.52%) ISTQB
15 5 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
16 3 (0.26%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 3 (0.26%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (7.56%) QA
2 22 (1.89%) Accessibility
2 22 (1.89%) GDPR
3 17 (1.46%) PCI DSS
4 11 (0.95%) IFRS
4 11 (0.95%) SLA
5 9 (0.77%) IFRS 17
5 9 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 9 (0.77%) Solvency II
6 8 (0.69%) Data Quality
6 8 (0.69%) EMIR
6 8 (0.69%) NIST
7 5 (0.43%) NCSC
7 5 (0.43%) WCAG
8 3 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.26%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.26%) SEPA
9 2 (0.17%) PSD2
9 2 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 359 (30.84%) Docker
2 15 (1.29%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.17%) Firmware
4 2 (0.17%) Terminal Server
4 2 (0.17%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.17%) vSphere
5 1 (0.086%) HDFS
5 1 (0.086%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 347 (29.81%) Kubernetes
2 175 (15.03%) Terraform
3 45 (3.87%) Grafana
4 43 (3.69%) Ansible
5 27 (2.32%) Kibana
6 18 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (1.29%) Prometheus
8 13 (1.12%) Argo
9 5 (0.43%) Puppet
10 4 (0.34%) HP Fortify
10 4 (0.34%) Kubeflow
10 4 (0.34%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.26%) Istio
12 2 (0.17%) Rancher
13 1 (0.086%) Kustomize
13 1 (0.086%) Nagios
Vendors
1 184 (15.81%) Microsoft
2 64 (5.50%) Oracle
3 28 (2.41%) Guidewire
4 27 (2.32%) Google
5 23 (1.98%) Salesforce
5 23 (1.98%) SAP
6 21 (1.80%) Splunk
7 20 (1.72%) Dynatrace
8 19 (1.63%) OpenAI
9 18 (1.55%) BiZZdesign
10 14 (1.20%) MuleSoft
11 13 (1.12%) CrowdStrike
12 12 (1.03%) Atlassian
12 12 (1.03%) Duck Creek
13 11 (0.95%) IBM
13 11 (0.95%) Software AG
14 10 (0.86%) Fortinet
14 10 (0.86%) Palo Alto
15 9 (0.77%) Red Hat
16 8 (0.69%) OpenLink